Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 19:25:55 -0800 Grant wrote: > It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. Does > anyone think this won't happen? > > - Grant Yes me. ARM will take over where it makes sense and won't where it doesn't. For desktops and laptops, x86 was used simply because

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 problem and disk access

2012-12-09 Thread Jacques Montier
2012/12/9 Andre Goessel > Moin, > > On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 03:36:29PM +0100, Jacques Montier wrote: > > As soon as i mount an ext4 partition on my second 1To HDD, the hard drive > > is always working (read/write) every second (even when doing nothing). > > > > This problem appears only with /dev

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing specific layman packages & eix-test-obsolete

2012-12-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/09/2012 01:13 AM, Grant wrote: > I need to be able to install only certain packages from a layman overlay > so I do stuff like this: > > package.mask: > */*::perl-experimental > > package.unmask: > perl-core/CPAN::perl-experimental > > This really freaks out eix-test-obsolete. Does anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing specific layman packages & eix-test-obsolete

2012-12-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 22:13:16 -0800, Grant wrote: > This really freaks out eix-test-obsolete. Does anyone know of a way to > install only certain packages from a layman overlay and > use eix-test-obsolete? I don't add such overlays to make conf. Instead, I symlink directories for the packages I wa

Re: [gentoo-user] eclean and the --time-limit option

2012-12-09 Thread Francesco Turco
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012, at 17:05, Neil Bothwick wrote: > It sounds like you want wget to use --no-use-server-timestamps. I haven't > tried it, but something like > > FETCHCOMMAND="$FETCHCOMMAND --no-use-server-timestamps" > > in make.conf should do it. If not, get the default settings from > emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure?

2012-12-09 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 05:20:36PM -0600, Dale wrote: > > That's been my experience too. I run @preserved-rebuild when it tells > me to but revdep-rebuild rarely finds anything. Thing is, it has a time > or two. It is best to run revdep-rebuild and be sure than not to and > run the risk of not

[gentoo-user] openrc - network configuration fails - how to debug it

2012-12-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have a problem with wlan without dhcpd. I have created the bug report below but didn't get any comments. Perhaps, some here on this list has an idea how to debug the problem. Here my bug report sys-apps/openrc (0.11.8 and earlier) doesn't play well with wlan without dhcp, i.e. This do

Re: [gentoo-user] eix and bad colors.

2012-12-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/08/2012 12:26:35 AM, Dale wrote: If I figure out something or Helmut's config works, I'll post back. Here is my ebuild app-portage/eix-.ebuild in my local overlay. Hopefully it helps, Helmut. # Copyright 1999-2012 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU Gener

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing specific layman packages & eix-test-obsolete

2012-12-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/09/2012 11:10:52 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 22:13:16 -0800, Grant wrote: > This really freaks out eix-test-obsolete. Does anyone know of a way to > install only certain packages from a layman overlay and > use eix-test-obsolete? I don't add such overlays to make conf.

Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure?

2012-12-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 07:18:42 -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: > What is @preserved-rebuild ? It is a portage set, hence the @ prefix, containing packages that need to be rebuilt in order to link them against the installed versions of libraries. > workstation ~ # emerge -a @preserved-rebuild > emerge: 'pr

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc - network configuration fails - how to debug it

2012-12-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 09 Dec 2012 15:18:49 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > config_wlan0="192.168.1.3 netmsk 255.255.255.0" ^ If this is a direct paste from your config, there's the problem. -- Neil Bothwick PC DOS Error #03: Windows not found: (C)heer (P)arty (D)ance signat

Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure?

2012-12-09 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 04:48:24PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > What is @preserved-rebuild ? > > It is a portage set, hence the @ prefix, containing packages that need to > be rebuilt in order to link them against the installed versions of > libraries. > > > workstation ~ # emerge -a @preserve

[gentoo-user] OT: Mail2HTML

2012-12-09 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, is there a easy program i can convert emails to html? Hypermail is little overload. Mail2Html find only as man page, Download links not work. Thx for ideas Silvio

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Mail2HTML

2012-12-09 Thread Scott Lawrence
Many moons ago, I created slark: https://github.com/bytbox/slark. It's the polar opposite of hypermail - very lightweight, but not much functionality. This might be the same mail2html, though: http://home.online.no/~pjacklam/perl/programs/mailutil/mail2html.pl On Sun, 9 Dec 2012, Silvio Sie

Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure?

2012-12-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 11:01:37 -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: > > > What is @preserved-rebuild ? > > > > It is a portage set, hence the @ prefix, containing packages that > > need to be rebuilt in order to link them against the installed > > versions of libraries. > > > > > workstation ~ # emerge -a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-09 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 09.12.2012 04:51, schrieb Michael Mol: > On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Grant wrote: >> It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. Does anyone >> think this won't happen? > > It's looking promising. Not that I have a horse in the race, but I > very much like ARM's low po

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-09 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:24:58 +0100 schrieb Florian Philipp : > Am 09.12.2012 04:51, schrieb Michael Mol: > > On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Grant wrote: > >> It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. Does anyone > >> think this won't happen? > > > > It's looking promising

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Mail2HTML

2012-12-09 Thread Silvio Siefke
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 12:23:16 -0500 (EST) Scott Lawrence wrote: > Many moons ago, I created slark: https://github.com/bytbox/slark. It's the > polar opposite of hypermail - very lightweight, but not much functionality. > > > > This might be the same mail2html, though: > http://home.online.no/~

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing specific layman packages & eix-test-obsolete

2012-12-09 Thread Grant
> > I need to be able to install only certain packages from a layman overlay > > so I do stuff like this: > > > > package.mask: > > */*::perl-experimental > > > > package.unmask: > > perl-core/CPAN::perl-experimental > > > > This really freaks out eix-test-obsolete. Does anyone know of a way to >

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing specific layman packages & eix-test-obsolete

2012-12-09 Thread Vaeth
in package.mask: */*::init6 eix-test-obsolete find over 27,000 packages under this heading: Redundant in /etc/portage/package.mask: ... considered as REDUNDANT_IF_MASK_NO_CHANGE The reason for this is the following: Since the category and package is */*, your mask can match every package - wh

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-09 Thread Grant
> > It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. Does > > anyone think this won't happen? > > > > - Grant > > Yes me. > > ARM will take over where it makes sense and won't where it doesn't. > > For desktops and laptops, x86 was used simply because there was nothing > else, so x86

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing specific layman packages & eix-test-obsolete

2012-12-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/09/2012 04:01 PM, Grant wrote: > > If my package.mask is empty, eix-test-obsolete runs fine. If I have > this in package.mask: > > */*::init6 > > eix-test-obsolete find over 27,000 packages under this heading: > > Redundant in /etc/portage/package.mask: > ... considered as REDUNDANT_IF_M

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-09 Thread Grant
> > It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. Does > > anyone think this won't happen? > > > > - Grant > > Yes me. > > ARM will take over where it makes sense and won't where it doesn't. > > For desktops and laptops, x86 was used simply because there was nothing > else, so x86

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-09 Thread James
Grant gmail.com> writes: > > > > > It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. > >> For desktops and laptops, x86 was used simply because there was nothing> else, so x86 is going to have to fight for it's survival > And won't the manufacturers be more inclined to use a p

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: first water cooled system

2012-12-09 Thread James
Volker Armin Hemmann googlemail.com> writes: > sensors, pwmconfig, fancontrol. No need to get the bios involved > (except maybe shutdown at 95°C) Sorry, I keep getting disconnected from this install... Does this wiki look about right for what to do with pwmconfig, and fancontrol and xsensors?

[gentoo-user] Does anyone else have broken symlinks in /usr/share/man/man1?

2012-12-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I'm affected by a bug that seems to affect only some Gentoo users. dev-libs/openssl seems to install broken symlinks for some of its man pages. You can check with: find /usr/share/man/ -type l ! -exec test -r {} \; -print If you are affected by this bug, then the above will print something

Re: [gentoo-user] Does anyone else have broken symlinks in /usr/share/man/man1?

2012-12-09 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I'm affected by a bug that seems to affect only some Gentoo users. > dev-libs/openssl seems to install broken symlinks for some of its man > pages. You can check with: > > find /usr/share/man/ -type l ! -exec test -r {} \; -print > > If you are affected by this bug, th

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 15:23:28 -0800 Grant wrote: > > > It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. > > > Does anyone think this won't happen? > > > > > > - Grant > > > > Yes me. > > > > ARM will take over where it makes sense and won't where it doesn't. > > > > For desktops and l

Re: [gentoo-user] Does anyone else have broken symlinks in /usr/share/man/man1?

2012-12-09 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Link to bug too. I'd like to CC that. I found it. For once the search feature actually worked for me. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437000 I posted a +1 on there too. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how

[gentoo-user] Re: Does anyone else have broken symlinks in /usr/share/man/man1?

2012-12-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/12/12 07:27, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I'm affected by a bug that seems to affect only some Gentoo users. dev-libs/openssl seems to install broken symlinks for some of its man pages. You can check with: find /usr/share/man/ -type l ! -exec test -r {} \; -print Small diffe

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 13:44:09 -0800 Grant wrote: > > But this is an old, old, old argument. People predicted the demise > > of> mainframes for years when x86 started becoming a quite powerful > > of> cpu.> The current truth is that IBM sell more mainframes year > > of> on year, growth> is more than

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does anyone else have broken symlinks in /usr/share/man/man1?

2012-12-09 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 10/12/12 07:27, Dale wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> I'm affected by a bug that seems to affect only some Gentoo users. >>> dev-libs/openssl seems to install broken symlinks for some of its man >>> pages. You can check with: >>> >>>find /usr/share/man/ -typ